There has certainly been a “buzz” in the media lately around the issue of healthy eating in general and healthy vending in particular. Some companies have recently begun to try and offer healthy vending alternatives. However, Monumental Vending has been championing healthy vending and offering healthy vending choices for years now-well before it became a national trend.

There has been a growing discussion in this country recently about eating healthier. From efforts to fight childhood obesity to trends in organic products to efforts by company wellness programs to improve employee health, this trend is certainly growing and here to stay. Even Michele Obama has made healthier eating her top priority. New laws have recently passed focusing on enhanced labeling of calories and other measurements of food health.

Craig Kushner, one of the owners of Monumental Vending, published an editorial in Automatic Merchandising Magazine back in March of 2005 advocating for the vending industry to embrace healthy vending as both an opportunity to do good and an opportunity for business growth.

Unlike some other companies, we didn’t just recently begin to think about healthy vending. We’ve been providing healthy drink and snack solutions to Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC for several years now. We understand the demands of consumers and how to provide what healthy consumers want.

The program set up guidelines for defining “healthy snacks” based on a variety of parameters including fat, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, and calories. The program was designed under the guidance of Carmen Gorniak, RD, CD, an expert in the field of nutrition.

Customers have many different requirements when it comes to healthy vending: